Gertrud Schiller

Gertrud Schiller (born January 7, 1905 in Beerbach , Lauf an der Pegnitz ; † December 4, 1994 in Grafrath , Amper ) was a German writer , nurse , social pedagogue , religion teacher and researcher . She created a standard work on Christian iconography that is relevant to art history .

Life

Gertrud Schiller was born on January 7, 1905 in Beerbach as the daughter of the pastor and later dean Wilhelm Heinrich Schiller and his wife Elise Anna Margaretha Schiller, born. Bucket, born. She grew up in Beerbach and Augsburg .

From 1915 she attended the Stetten Institute for girls' higher education . As a woman, she was not allowed to take a high school diploma or attend a humanistic grammar school. She experienced the First World War through the death news of her cousins ​​and uncles. In the Soviet Republic of 1919, brother Heiner's friend fell on the streets: “My brother Heiner wanted to know what was going on and later went to Königsplatz with a neighboring friend. He was uncomfortable and immediately turned back. The friend stayed - only ten minutes later he was brought home dead. "

In 1923 she attended a household school in Munich and then learned nursing at the municipal hospital in Augsburg.

In 1927, Gertrud Schiller decided to take up the new profession of social pedagogue and therefore went to Frankfurt am Main . For her thesis she chose the topic “Adult Education and Elementary Schools”. While training as a social pedagogue, she did a six-month internship at the welfare office in Marburg , which was also responsible for the youth authority in Hamburg. After completing her training, she got a job at the Protestant regional church in Hamburg and moved there in 1928.

Two years later she became a civil servant. In 1930 she took over the management of the Clemens Schulz home in Kuddewörde . After the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , the churches had to take religious instruction itself; For this task, Gertrud Schiller took an exegetical course in 1934 at the Johannesstift in Spandau . At the time, she dealt with medieval art in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum .

In 1938 she brought out three portfolios with the title “Pictures of the Bible” (“Easter”, “Christmas”, “Encounters with Christ”), initially at Atlantis Verlag, the second edition of which was published in the Johannes Stauda- Verlag ( Kassel ) published.

In 1941 “The Passion of Christ” and “The Creation” also appeared there. In response to Wilhelm Stählin's review , the Freiburg Caritas Association asked Gertrud Schiller to set up an iconographic library. In Freiburg she got in touch with Reinhold Schneider , whose poems were typed on the typewriter and passed from hand to hand. After six months in Freiburg, she initially returned to Hamburg. In May 1944 she met Axel Werner Kühl for the last time .

When the air raids on Hamburg became more frequent and violent, several schools were evacuated to Bavaria. Gertrud Schiller gave religious instruction in Franconian Switzerland , but lived in Bamberg . At the end of the war she wrote “The light shines in the darkness”, which was published in 1946 by the Johannes Stauda publishing house. She made the proposal to set up an office for artistic advice for the communities.

From 1946 to 1969 she was head of the church art service, an office of the Hamburg regional church . At this time she began to work for young theologians and artists at the Church University of Hamburg . In 1979 she received an honorary doctorate from the Church University of Berlin.

In 1993 she finished her standard work on Christian iconography . A year later she died and was buried in Augsburg.

meaning

Gertrud Schiller was and is considered a capacity for Christian iconography (see, for example, Descent from the Cross ) and received an honorary doctorate for her work in 1979, although she was not allowed to study. During her time in Munich in 1923, she therefore only attended the art history lectures as a guest student . So it came about that she only finished a large part of her artistic work after her retirement .

Works

• Christian art iconography. 5 (in 7) volumes and booklet. Mohn, Gütersloh 1966ff. (In English: Iconography of Christian Art. 2 volumes. Translated by Janet Seligman. Lund Humphries, London 1971f.);
  • Volume 1: Incarnation, childhood, baptism, temptation, transfiguration, work and miracles of Christ. 1966 (3rd, revised edition. Ibid. 1981, ISBN 3-579-04135-5 ), (In English: Christ's Incarnation, Childhood, Baptism, Temptation, Transfiguration, Works and Miracles. 1971);
  • Volume 2: The Passion of Jesus Christ. 1968 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 1983, ISBN 3-579-04136-3 ); (In English: The Passion of Jesus Christ. 1972, ISBN 0-85331-324-5 );
  • Volume 3: The Resurrection and Exaltation of Christ. 1971, ISBN 3-579-04137-1 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 1986);
  • Volume 4, 1: The Church. 1976, ISBN 3-579-04138-X (2nd, revised edition, ibid. 1988);
  • Volume 4, 2: Maria. 1980, ISBN 3-579-04139-8 ;
  • Volume 5, 1: The Apocalypse of John. Text part. 1990, ISBN 3-579-00261-9 ;
  • Volume 5, 2: The Apocalypse of John. Image part. 1991, ISBN 3-579-00262-7 ,
  • Register booklet for volumes 1 - 4, 2. Edited by Rupert Schreiner. 1980.
• Hamburg's new churches, 1951–1961. Christians, Hamburg 1961.
• The Revelation of John. Colored pictures from the Bamberg Apocalypse around 1020. Wittig, Hamburg 1955 (also: (= early medieval book painting. Vol. 10, ZDB -ID 847783-8 ). Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1970).
• The messengers of God. Stauda, ​​Kassel 1951.
• Report on the activities of the Church Art Service from 1946–1951. Kirchl. Art service, Hamburg 1951.
• as editor: Martin Schongauer: The Passion of Christ. Copper engravings (= Master of Graphics. Vol. 6, ZDB -ID 251934-3 ). Preface by Gertrud Schiller. Wegner, Hamburg 1948.
• The light shines in the darkness. The Christmas message proclaims in words, pictures and songs. Stauda, ​​Kassel 1946 (2nd edition, ibid 1950).
• as editor: Pictures for the Bible. The word of scripture depicted in masterpieces of art. 6 deliveries. Atlantis-Verlag et al., Berlin et al. 1938ff .;
  • Delivery 1: Easter. Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1938;
  • Delivery 2: Encounters. Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1938;
  • Delivery 3: Christmas. Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1938;
  • Delivery 4/5: The Passion of Christ. Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1939;
  • Delivery 6: Creation. Stauda, ​​Kassel 1941.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ | Biography Gertrud Schiller (unfinished)
2. ↑ Author database  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.